A vertically integrated farming company is going to beat collections of farms with cobbled together technology. We are not yet at that end state. That said, th

A vertically integrated farming company is going to beat collections of farms with cobbled together technology. We are not yet at that end state. That said, the commenter who said that farmers can make use of computerization did not say that they would employ engineers directly, and I see several other commenters falling victim to that narrow interpretation.